VISUAL CONCEPTIVE

I dared to invite women to reconnect to themselves and their bodies - A challenge I was facing myself at the time.

I combined sound recordings, photographs, social media and downloads into an art project to convey a realization I was drawn to share:

"I believe our bodies follow moon cycles - a waning and waxing of emotions and potentiality we carry within ourselves. Like seeds."

 

The art project CONCEPTIVES is composed of four elements: ORAL conceptive, AUDIO conceptive, visual conceptive and #DAILYCONCEPTIVE.

 

This is a minimalistic set of four photographs. Each image is my representation of a woman's weekly internal cycles.

PRINT EDITIONS HISTORY

1st Edition. (2013). 25 print sets + A.P. - Paper size: 8.5” x 11”; Image area approximately 7.5” x 7.5” inches.

Upcoming 2nd Edition. 25 print sets + 5 A.P. - Paper size: 13” x 19”; Image area approximately 11” x 11” inches.

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AUDIO CONCEPTIVE explores sensations and impressions  experienced during my cycles and it's recorded in my own voice (Accent included).

"I combine adjectives, nouns and verbs to create a lexicon of potentials existent in each of the four phases of a woman's cycles. It's an evocation for women to become aware of these multiple parts within themselves and integrate them into their monthly, weekly and daily routines."

 

For an inside perspective on this recording read my blog post - "A recorded accent"

#DAILYCONCEPTIVE

This is the interactive element of CONCEPITVES. I put out an open invitation for women to share the stages of their own cycles as a group on pinterest and twitter. During a year, which corresponds to 13 new moons, or 13 cycles in a woman's life,  I shared words and icons that reflected my internal phases. I’ve now fulfilled my commitment. The moons came and went. But I’m not done. I am still there. (13 moons was not enought !) This dialog is ongoing.

"To choose these words and images I have to maintain a continuous inquisition of where I am in my cycle, and by sharing them I invited other women to do the same. We started a weekly process of self-discovery, no matter where we were on our cycles, and because of social media, no matter where we were in the world." Come. Join us!

 
 

To find out why 13 moons was not long enough for this project. Read my blog post "13 moons".

I am celebrating the inclusion of the project Conceptives on ContemporaryIdentities - issue #7 an independent quarterly Art magazine. Through short art reviews from scholars, art writers and art critics ContemporaryIdentities offers a space for experimental and progressive contemporary artists.